Posted on 02/16/2016 4:23:47 AM PST by Helicondelta
Trump on George W. Bush: 'Ask yourself why he went silent all these years'
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exactly
Once again Trump shows himself the a$$hole we don’t need
He is either working for the other side or he doesn’t have any idea how it works.
Yeah, I agree with the second part of the question. That would be because he is not a politician. I do NOT want a career politician elected this time.
Instead, they got billions, and the next Treasury Secretary was Tax Cheat Timmy.
I vigorously defended Dubya up until Nov 2006, when he embraced being a lame duck. When you leave office with an approval rating in the low 20's, that's a good indication that you effed up.
Speaking of the bully pulpit, Trump is doing quite well with the bully part, not so much with the pulpit.
Colin Powell Saying He Was Misled Before UN Speech on WMDs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZTLmOoPzjs
That’s cute, and easy to do, because the name Trump lends itself to all kinds of wordplay. However, so does Cruz. ExCruziating, for example. Some of them are funny (Trumper Tantrum) but none of them, on either side, are persuasive. All of them are examples of ridicule, which is an Alinsky tactic. I don’t mind using those tactics on those who deserve it (GOPe types and Democrats) but I don’t like to see our people use it on Cruz and Trump, the only people I can support in this race. I don’t like to see Trump and Cruz at each other’s throats, it only helps the establishment.
There is nothing that talks about G.W. Bush's silence while in office or even his last three years in office, although Trump does mention Bush's actions after 9/11, which I largely agree with and will give him the benefit of the doubt for those I don't because I wasn't in favor of just loading up B-52 with bombs and carpet bombing the entire Middle East, and I didn't have to get people on board to take action. Those who feel laying waste to the Middle East was the appropriate course of action, that's okay. You didn't have to find a way to move forward and take action, but your opinion is your own.
My post was specifically about the "custom" of keeping your mouth shut when leaving the office, and nearly all Presidents throughout history did just that, except for the the scumbag Carter and every Democrat President after that. Carter set the precedent.
I know how incredibly unpopular it is on Free Republic to defend anything George W. Bush did either during or after his terms.
I feel the same way many do about his silence, both in not defending the conduct of himself and his administration. I wish he had come out against his detractors, and didn't. And there are plenty of other things I criticize him harshly about ranging from his folding with judicial nominees to his infuriating attempts to "reach across the aisle" to people who were only going to cut that hand off.
But why is there a need to read more into what Trump said? to reiterate, Bush's last three years in office were not what Donald Trump was referring to. He simply was not.
Dang auto correct, meant Cruzader.
It is not exactly true that Bush and others in his administration did not defend himself. There was plenty said on all sides. The problem is Bush told the truth and a lot of Americans did not want to hear it or believe it. We were, we are, we will be, in for a long, long war.An ideological war.
People don’t want to face that. Obama smiles and announces the war is over.....easy peasy. but not true. That is what way too many people (including Trump and his followers) want to believe. Or they want to believe something that is equally easy but untrue...Bush lied , people died”
Even before Bush took office we were at war ....or rather war was declared on us.
Everyone put blinders on. 9/11 was just one of many acts of war perpetrated on the west, the U S and its people. The thing Bush did was face the music and call it what it was. He also did something that people also don’t like.
He fought.
He fought, not the easy way that Trump does, with his mouth. He committed us to war. And once again people don’t like it because war is not a simple linear walk from point A to point B ..it is messy and full of pitfalls and it takes courage and fortitude. But like it or not Bush and the military fought, made changes in strategy and did what needed to be done. And in doing that he kept America safe.
Then as so often happens with the human condition. Way too many people put the blinders right back on.... where they remain. Trump may win and people may cheer just as Obama did win and people did cheer..... but he will continue to be wrong about so much.
And like Obama I don’t see that he will learn on the job. He is awfully fond of his blinders
Reagan did have a health issue? You do recall that, right?
Imagine the grief he would have gotten from the left. Alzheimer’s is damn thing. My uncle was afflicted by it. His middle age grown children, he did not hardly recognize. Grandchildren. Nuh uh.
My mother’s step dad had it too. In the last conversation I had with him he thought I was a buddy who fought on Okinawa with him. I was not born till the next year. It was really sad.
I am not a Trump fan. He had never had any attraction for me in any way. I’ll vote for him if he is the nominee. But a troubling thing for me is to hear Code Pink endorse the things he says.
I have stood outside Walter Reed Many times across from the Code Pinkos, and I despise them and every single thing about them, top to bottom.
It is problematic to hear them praise Donald Trump on 9/11 related issues, because THOSE people are mentally ill. ALL of them.
He most certainly did not. He spoke at the 92 RNC Convention, which was shortly before going public with his Alzheimers.
Because Jeb is trying to ride his coattails.
Yeah kinda like The TANGERINE MAN and his claim to bringing up building the wall as being his idea.
Next thing he will say he thinks there should be 3 branches of Government and he will see to it in his first 100 days.
Yeah and if you are supporting Trump you will get someone who will fight for what HE wants, not what the People need.
Yawl are such fools if yawl cannot see that he is a white Obama. Write that down and freepmail me in two years if he becomes _resident and America is still standing to tell me I was correct.
I get it. You're for Cruz.
You support a Cuban guy named Rafael that was born in Canada.
I like everything Cruz says, but I just don't believe him.
Republicans have been saying all that stuff for YEARS.
I just don't believe these people any more. Cruz has been in a government job for how long..... almost 20 years?
He worked for Bush!
Please understand this: We just don't trust these people any more.
The support for Trump is the electoral equivalent of jury nullification.
And we're fine with that.
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